Personal Injury Law

Three injured when pickup rear-ends another vehicle

By Ryan Bradley, Esq.

Three people were injured Tuesday afternoon when a Chevrolet pickup truck slammed into the back of an Isuzu Trooper in Phelps County, Missouri.

The Missouri injury accident occurred on Highway 63 near County Road 5340. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the driver of the Trooper, Melissa Wiley, 18, had slowed to make a left turn. Tony Goodfellow, 28, was following in the pickup, but failed to slow or stop and crashed into the rear of the first vehicle.

As a result of the impact, a leaf spring on the Trooper flew open and struck a third vehicle.

Wiley?s vehicle came to a rest overturned in the roadway, and Goodfellow?s traveled off the road into a house. Both were totaled.

Wiley and her passenger, Nikki Shaw, 11, were both injured and taken to Phelps County Regional Medical Center for treatment. Goodfellow was also injured and taken to Phelps County Regional. Nobody in the third vehicle was injured.

From an injury accident lawyer?s perspective, this seems to be a simple rear end collision case. In the majority of cases, negligence is assumed on the part of the at-fault driver in rear-end collision cases. While only the basic information on this crash was released by the highway patrol, you can see that not only did Goodfellow rear end the Isuzu Trooper, he did it with enough force to total both vehicles and flip over Wiley?s vehicle.

Should a personal injury attorney be called in to investigate, the first thing he or she will do is gather more information about the speed of both vehicles and how they were both driving just before the accident.

Full post as published by Missouri Accident Lawyer Blog on May 20, 2009 (boomark / email).